Improvement in gas-retort chargers



P. MUNZINGER.

Gas-Retort Chargers.

Patented March 24, 187v4.

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1NVENTF1 UNITED STATES PATENT CEEICE.

PETER MUNZINGER, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO MORRIS TASKER & OO., OF SAME PLAGE.

IMPROVEMENT IN GAS-RETORT CHARGERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 148, S411, dated March Q4, 1874 ,'1 application filed February 3, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PETER MUNZINGEE, of the city and county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania7 have invented a new and useful Scoop-Wagon for Gas-Vork-s, of which the following is a specification:

The invention consists, first, of a revolving scoop'carrier in connection with a wagon or other suitable carrying device; second, of a revolving scoop carrier in connection with suspension or scoop-carrying devices; third, of a revolving scoop-carrier in connection With geared wheels for working the same; fourth, of a revolving scoopcarrier in connection with a ratchet-wheel and a detent for holding the said scoop-carrier in any required position.

Figure l is a side elevation. Fig.v 2 is an end elevation, the vertical or housing at that end being sectioned or shortened to exhibit the geared wheels and the ratchet-wheel and its detent. Fig. 3 is also an end view similarly sectioned.

A is a wagon or carrier, in the standards B B' of which turns the horizontal shaft C, on which are xed, at suitable distances apart, the circular plates D D. E is a toothed wheel on the shaft C, at the front of the wagon, which gears with a similar toothed wheel, E', on the shaft of the actuating handle F. G is a ratchetwheel, which is secured to the upper toothed wheel E, or to its shaft C; its detent H is pivoted to the standard B. I I' are sco0p-carrying hooks, which are suspended freely from the inner faces of the plates D D', in such manner as always to preserve a vertical position, irrespective of the movements of the said plates. J are coal-scoops, which are carried by the suspensionhooks I I'.

Each scoop, respectively, when charged at the coal-house, is passed endwise through openings a in the plate D' onto the carrying-hooks I l', at that side of the frame for bearing the leverage pressure on the ratchet-wheel and detent G H. The geared wheels E E' and the actuating handle F turn the frame until the scoops are successively placed in position, after which the wagon is drawn to the retort-house, and the scoops discharged endwise into the retorts.

The number of openings in the plate D', and the number of stops in the ratchet-wheel G, should correspond with the number of scoops the frame is capable of carrying. In this instance, the revolving scoop-carrier consists of the shaft C and the circular plates D D', carried by a wagon.

I do not coniine myself to the device shown and described, but I claim as my invention a rev volvin g scoop-carrier in connection with transporting mechanism, either or both, of any suitable construction; neither do I conne myself to the hooks I I', as shown, for supporting the scoops J, but claim any suitable devices attached to a revolving scoop-carrier, by which the tops of the scoops shall always retain their planes horizontally and parallel to each other, whereby they will be prevented from tilting and dropping their contents.

I claim as my inventionl. A revolving scoop-carrier, in connection with a wagon, A, or other transporting device.

2. A revolving scoop-carrier, in connection with the suspension-hooks I I', or other suitable scoop-carryin g devices.

3. A revolving scoop-carrier, in connection with the tooth-wheel E E' and the actuating handle F, for the purpose shown and described.

4. A revolving scoop-carrier, in connectionl with the ratchet-wheel G and the detent H.

In testimony whereof I hereunto sign my name in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

PETER MUN ZINGER.

Witnesses:

FRANCIS D. PAsToRIUs, JOHN YILLE. 

